Why YOUR Job Search is Failing Dismally (and how to fix that today) Part 1

Morning!

For almost 11 years, I've either on the radar or off the radar helped teach people how to maximize their job search success online.

And because my piece about an incredibly unique way of using Facebook to help boost your career search will arrive on the shelves in May, I figure it's a Good Thing to start discussing the sheer utter heart-stopping bloodcurdling horrific joys that relentlessly ooze over job seekers like angry toenail fungus devours unsuspecting feet.

So!

Let's begin with:

Is the following you?  I mean…is it REALLY you?

Awhile back, I had offered a friend of mine my personal help regarding her job search.  Now, I am to career searching like Bruce Lee is to Martial Arts, mind you….so you'd think that such an opportunity would be seized with both hands, two feet and perhaps an elbow or two.

After describing what would be required (I always go 120% for my friends), I received the following text.

"Hey, I just looked over the email…you are right about the
120% part!  Honestly we probably don't even need the q & a
session.  I would be grateful if you just kept an eye out
there or put in a good word for me – that sort of thing.
As for the type of job….anything sorta local, a decent
salary, and need a brain to do, is okay by me."

Luckily at the precise moment I had read that, I had *already* swallowed my coffee so I didn't destroy my keyboard, screen, mooses and various sundry children about by spitting boiling-hot coffee out of my ears.

• Can you believe the arrogance of that comment?
• Can you believe the stupidity of that comment?
• Can you believe the sheer cluelessness of that comment?

'Cause I'll tell you, I was struck dumb by the following realization.

Smart people know that a success job search strategy requires a custom-tailored plan….and that was more foreign to her than figure-skating hipster mooses.

'Matter of fact, I think if I had had a conversation similar to:

It would have had the same result.

Sigh.

So let's now focus on what YOUR job search is dismally failing, shall we?

And here's why.

Your job search is dismally failing because you're not following the *best* job search strategy that works for *you*.

Let me ask you 3 simple questions, might I?

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1.)  What is your personal contact for job career queries?

Do you offer an email address for responses?

Or do you submit your own personal resume portfolio domain so potential employers can visit you and see what you're really about and what you really have to offer?

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2.)  What is your participation in local business groups?

Do local businesses know you exist?

Or do you faithfully ignore the chamber of commerce, the get-togethers/networking in your industry and the like?

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3.)  What is on your personal business card?

Does it have your name and skills so if even if unemployed, you can still hand out cards at business fuctions?

Or do you simply not even have one because you're not currently employed?

Well?

Hmmmmm?

You see, you can greatly slant the odds in your favor about looking for a job if you take advantage of the huge amounts of job search goodness that you can find online.

We're talking social media, we're talking your own personal site….

We're talking about you marketing YOU.

In other words, we're NOT talking about:

"Hey, I just looked over the email…you are right about the
120% part!  Honestly we probably don't even need the q & a
session.  I would be grateful if you just kept an eye out
there or put in a good word for me – that sort of thing.
As for the type of job….anything sorta local, a decent
salary, and need a brain to do, is okay by me."

So how do you go about solving your dismal job search problem?

Easy!

Get Educated about what's out there.

ie, you can visit sites like:

• Job Hunt
• Riley Guide

for free quality information, and then dive directly into:

That's just the beginning, mind you….but it's a great way to stop failing and start stacking the job search cards in your direction.

And that, of course, could only be described as a Very Good Thing indeed.  🙂

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Grow strong,

Barbara Ling